Store



Aug. 23, 1932.

c. E. RORRER ET Al.

STORE Filed Aug. 28, i928 2 SheetsSheet l I N VEN TORJ` A TTORNE Y.

Aug. 23, 1932. c. E. RORRER ET AL STORE Filed Aug. 28, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Aug. 23, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CHARLES E. BORREB AND ALBERT R. HITTERER, F DENVER, COLORADO, ASSIGNORS T0 STADIUM STORES, INC., `0I? DENVER, COLQRADO STORE Application :tiled August 28, 1928. Serial No. 302,494.

stand, entrances, exits and other appliances and installations that permits of the display of merchandise to the best advantage and its ready inspection by customers passing 'through the store.

Another object of the invention resides in providing a store arrangement that permits of replenishing the merchandise by attendants without interfering with the customers, a further object is to provide means readily accessible to purchasers to ascertain the weight of goods taken from the display shelves, another object is to provide in a self-serving store, a simple and effective method for preserving perishable merchandise by refrigeration and moisture. `Av further object is to provide for the attractive display of merchandise in a sale-room in such a manner that all the merchandise can be seen from any point in the room, both by the customers and by the checking clerks, and still other objects reside in details of construction and in other novel arrangements and combinations of parts as will be brought out in the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings in the several views, of which like parts are similarly designated,

Figure 1 represents a plan view of the improved store-arrangement,

Figure 2, a section taken on the line 2 2, Figure 1,

Figure 3, a section along the line 3 3, Figure 1, and V Figure 4, a rspective view of one of the weighing appliances included in the arrangement.

In Figure 1 of the drawings the reference numeral 5 designates a store room having a front-wall 6, with display-windows 7 and an entrance-door 8.

The rear Wall of the store has not been shown for lack of space, but it is to be understood that the rear wall may as usual, have one or more doors through which merchandise can be supplied to a storage space 14 in the back of the room.

The outstanding feature of the installation is a display stand 9 of U-shaped or horse-shoe form, the sides l() of which may extend parallel to the side walls 12 of the store room and the curve 13 of which faces the front wall of the same.

The stand is made of upright walls and a top to provide a case 15 useful mainly for the storage of merchandise and 4for the installation of pipes 16 of a refrigeration system by which perishable merchandise is kept from spoiling.

The walls of the oase may be made of insulating material and the case has a plurality of doors 17 in its outer wall to aiford access to the contents of the case.

The front wall of the case may also be provided with doors as at 18, and the case may have shelves 19 accessible to the customers, behind one or more of these doors, for the storage of merchandise requiring constant refrigeration such as butter, milk, eggs, etc.

The top 20 of the stand slants from its rear wall forwardly and it may be divided into a number of stalls by a front wall 21, a rear wall 22 and transverse partitions 23. In order to vary the size of these stalls, the partitions may be adjustable, and a convenient method of adjusting the partitions consists in providing the rear and front walls of the stalls with upright slots 24, best shown in Figure 4, and by forming the partitions at their ends with tongues 25 that loosely fit into the slots. 4

In front of the slanting stalls at the lower ends thereof is a weighing shelf 26 equipped with movable platforms 27, dials 28 to indicate the weight of articles supported on the platforms, and parallel rails 29 to facilitate the sliding movement of baskets with merchandise to and from the platforms. The shelf may be supported on brackets 30 for- Ward of the front wall of the case, as shown Y 4in Figure 2, or it may form the top of the access to the interior of the stand from both l sides thereof.

5. In a store, a U-shaped display stand providing a' space for customers interiorly of the stand and a spacefor employees outside the same, the top surface of the stand sloping from the space for customers upwardly, and i.

' transverse partitions dividing said surface into stalls, a space for merchandise within said stand, and means affording access to the interior of the stand from both sides thereof.

6. In a store, a U-shaped display stand providing a space forcustomers interiorly of thestand and a space for employees outside the same, the top surface of the stand sloping from the space for customers upwardly, and transverse partitions dividing said surface into stalls, the partitions being separately movable to vary the width of the stalls, a space for merchandise within said stand, and means affording access to the interior of the stand from both sides thereof. y 7. In a store, a U-shaped display stand providing a space for customers interiorly of the stand and a space for employees outside the same, the top surface of the stand sloping from the space for customers upwardly, and o a wall at the upper edge of the surface to retain merchandise upon the same, a space for merchandise within said stand, and means Y affording access to the interior of the stand from both sides thereof.

8. In a store, a U-shaped display stand providing a space for customers interiorly of the stand and a space for employees outside the same, the top surface of the stand sloping from the space for customers upwardly, a

5 wall at the upper edge of the surface to retain merchandise upon the same, and transversepartitions cooperating with the wall to divide the surface into stalls, a space for merchandise withinA said stand, and means affording access to the interior of the stand from both sides thereof.

9. In a store, a U-shaped display stand providing a space for customers interiorly of the stand and a space for employees outside the 6o same, the top surface of the stand sloping from the space for customers upwardly, a wall at the upper edge of the surface to retain merchandise upon the saine, and transverse partitions connected with the wall for 5 adjustment to selective positions, whereby to divide the surface into stalls of variablev widths, a space for merchandise within said stand, and means affording access to the interior of the stand from both sides thereof.

10. In a store, a U-shaped display stand dividing floor space of the store into a space within the stand for customers, and a space outside the stand for employees, the stand having a stationary top for the display of merchandise, sloping upwardly from the customers space to the employees space.

11. In a store, a U-shaped display stand dividing floor space of the store into separate spaces for customers and for employees,

the stand having a top for the display of merchandise, sloping'upwardly fromthe customers space to the employees7 space.

In testimony whereof we have aii'iXed our signatures.

CHARLES E. RORRER. ALBERT R. MITTERER. 

